Background: The current war in Gaza has resulted in extensive destruction, displacement and severe health challenges, affecting mental health and psychosocial wellbeing. High rates of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, and complex grief are prevalent, disrupting social networks, family cohesion, and community structures.

The impact of political events, actions, policies and ideologies can be both profound and far reaching, with many people experiencing significant losses and major grief as a consequence. There is now a growing interest in what has come to be known as political grief. This paper has been developed by a working group of grief professionals to reflect the basis of the group’s discussions and the conclusions drawn.

Documentation and analysis of psychological states experienced by witnesses and survivors of catastrophic events is a critical concern of psychological research. This paper introduces the new corpus of written testimonies collected from nearly 1500 Ukrainian civilians from May 2022–January 2024, during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The texts are available in the original Ukrainian and the English translation. The Narratives of War (NoW) corpus additionally contains demographic and geographic data on respondents, as well as their scores in tests of PTSD symptoms and moral injury.

The outbreak of the Israel–Hamas war on October 7, 2023, has presented unprecedented challenges to older adults’ mental health, including increased posttraumatic stress, anxiety, and depression. The current study examined potential war- and age-related factors associated with probable posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), clinical depression (probable depression), and generalized anxiety disorder (probable anxiety) among older adults during the ongoing war.